Flipping shapes
Flipping a rectangle isn’t very exciting since it’s symmetrical. Let’s use a line of elephants instead to demonstrate the idea of flipping.
We’d like these elephants to be a bit more social and talk to each other instead of just standing in line. To flip one of them around, we could use the Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical buttons in the Tool control panel, but why go through that trouble when we could just use H and V keys (respectively) on the keyboard to do the same job?
Figure 2.32 shows the result:
Figure 2.32 – Flipping an elephant
That’s right! Simply select one of our elephants, hit the H key, and a full-on pachyderm conversation is ready to take place. Just don’t ignore the elephant in the room!
Similarly, tapping the V key will flip our elephant on its back, but why you would want to do that to our poor elephant is beyond me.
